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Monday 26th January 2015
The changes at the top
levels of the Royal Police
Force continue with a new
man taking over as head of
the Criminal Investigation
Department.
Acting Commissioner,
Wendell Robinson, says
Superintendent Clayton
Davis takes over from Superintendent Nuffield Burnette as the new department head.
The acting commissioner says Burnette now
moves to head the major
events unit, which has responsibility to ensure the
safety and proper controls of major events such
as Carnival, Cricket and
events such as this weekend’s Tempo 10 show.
Burnette’s appointment
takes effect from January
28.
He also announced
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Acting Commissioner of Police Wendell Robinson continues
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Police investigate Bendals home invasion
The police are investigating a
home invasion that occurred during
the early hours of Saturday morning
in the Bendals area.
Reports are that a lone masked
man, armed with a gun…gained encont’d from pg 1
of Deputy Commissioner,
Ivor David, who is on vacation leave.
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try into the home of a married couple, robbing them of $2000 cash.
The assailant also made off with
2 gold chains valued at a total of
$800 before making good his escape.
The police are mounting inves-
He said whenever
there is a change in an organization, it is important
that the new leadership put
people in positions where
they can affect the necessary changes necessary for
the success of the organization.
The Acting Commis-
tigations into this matter, as well
as other crimes committed over the
weekend. These include malicious
damage to vehicles and the arrest of
two females for the possession and
cultivation of cannabis.
sioner also addressed one
of the issues raised as
reason for the suspension
of Commissioner Vere
Browne.
He announced that
there has been a wave of
promotions in the lower
ranks of the police force.
Twenty five officers have
been named to the rank of
corporal. Fourteen of them
have been confirmed with
eleven acting.
He said the officers
are drawn from practically all the departments in
the force. He said so far,
the promotions have been
well-received.
Meanwhile,
Robinson and his top officers
including inspectors and
superintendents have had
their first full meeting
with members of the Police Service Commission.
During the meeting, the
PSC and the senior officers discussed a wide
range of issues to include
discipline, professionalism, crime fighting, and a
more visible presence of
the police in St John’s and
other areas.
Robinson described
the meeting as fruitful.
The PSA appointed Robinson as acting commission
nearly two weeks ago after
it suspended Commissioner Browne indefinitely for
what can only be termed
‘dereliction of duty’.
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PM Browne Congratulates
Acting Commissioner of Police
Prime Minister the
Hon. Gaston Browne has
once again articulated his
government’s stance on
crime in the state of Antigua and Barbuda.
During his closing
presentation on the 2015
Budget, Prime Minister
Browne says that with
a new Acting Commissioner at the helm of the
Royal Police Force of
Antigua and Barbuda, his
government expects to
see a marked reduction in
crime, particularly gun related crimes and incidences of rape.
“My government has
laid out a clear and concise crime fighting plan
and we expect that the police force, in collaboration
with the other crime fighting agencies will utilize
it fully. Antiguans and
Barbudans are weary of
the rise in crime and my
government is determined
to remedy the situation,”
noted PM Browne.
Speaking to Prime
Minister Browne over the
weekend, Acting Commissioner of Police Wendell Robinson, advised the
country’s leader that he is
committed to the task and
will do everything within
his power to ensure that
all arms of the force work
to accomplish this mission.
He also thanked Prime
Minister Browne for the
confidence expressed in
him and he is determined
to make a change within
the operations of the institution. He said that he
is honoured to give of his
service in this new capacity, having served in sev-
PM Browne congratulating Acting Commissioner of Police
Wendell Robinson.
eral other positions within the force for the past
twenty years.
Prime
Minister
Browne in commending
Acting
Commissioner
Robinson on his new position, said that he expects
Acting
Commissioner
Robinson to marshall the
team into one cohesive
and effective unit. “We
have given an opportu-
nity to those who make
crime their business to
turn a new page, however
those who persist will feel
the full force of the law,”
Prime Minister Browne
outlined.
Acting Commissioner Robinson assumed the
position over a week ago,
following the suspension
of Commissioner of Police Vere Browne.
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Monday 26th January 2015
Cool & Smooth donates to Sports Ministry
Cool and Smooth continues to show its dedication and commitment to
sports in Antigua and Barbuda.
Cool and smooth recently donated a 32” Television to the Ministry of
Sports.
The Assistant Director of Sports in the Ministry of Sports Mr. Jawaki
Jones said that Cool and
Smooth has been a contributor and partner to the
ministry of sports for over
10 years, their support
over the years has truly
been overwhelming and
this latest contribution is a
testimony to their continued support.
Mr. Jones said that the
ministry was very grateful
for the donation and that
he would like to personally thank Amir and the rest
of the Hourani brothers
for always answering the
call and for all the support
that they have shown over
the years.
Amir Hourani, right, makes the presentation of a 32” flat
screen television to Jawaki Jones, Assistant Director of
Sports in the Ministry of Education.
Antigua and Barbuda’s
Prime Minister, the Honorable Gaston Browne, is
among Caribbean leaders
who have accepted an invitation from United States
Vice President Joe Biden
to participate in a regional
summit on Energy Security
being held in Washington
DC today.
Prime Minister Browne
is accompanied by the Honorable Asot Michael, Minister of Tourism, Economic
Development, Investment
and Energy and by Ambassador Brian Challenger,
Adviser to the Minister of
Energy.
The Washington Summit is a follow up to a similar meeting held in 2013
in Trinidad and is aimed at
providing a forum for ad-
vancing hemispheric mechanisms in promoting clean
energy development in the
region at a time of volatility
in regional and international energy markets.
The meeting also
comes against a background of increasing focus on development of the
regions renewable energy
supplies and attention on
implementing policies and
measures for meeting international climate change
emission targets.
The meeting is expected to issue a broad statement of principles intended
to promote a cleaner and
more sustainable energy future for the Caribbean.
Principal among the
concerns of Antigua and
Barbuda and other Carib-
bean countries will be advancing international cooperation to facilitate private
and public sector investment in the energy sector in
such areas as upgrading of
electricity grids, energy efficiency, and wind and solar
energy development.
Caribbean leaders are
also scheduled to follow up
with the US Vice President
and US administration officials on a number of other
areas of regional concern
relating to the region’s economic competitiveness, human resource development,
and citizen security.
The Washington summit is expected to be attended by a number of other bilateral and multilateral
development partners including the Caribbean De-
Prime Minister Browne Participates
in Caribbean Energy Security Summit
United States Vice President
Joe Biden has invited Prime
Minister, the Hon., Gaston
Browne to participate in a
regional summit on Energy
Security being held in Washington DC today.
velopment Bank and the Inter-American Development
Bank, the European Union,
and the OAS as well as the
OECS and Caricom secretariats.
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Oil price crunch and looming
elections in Trinidad & Tobago
The unexpected and
precipitate drop in the
price of oil, from over
US$100 to under US$50,
will have a major impact
on the economy of our
sister island of Trinidad
and Tobago whose current budget assumed a
price of US$80 a barrel.
Bearing in mind that
a general election is due
before the end of 2015,
the necessary budget-cutting exercise will be more
than usually difficult. Last
week, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar in
a nationwide broadcast
announced that the Government would calculate
its next national budget
on the basis of US$45 a
barrel for oil and US$2.25
for gas.
Petrotrin, the stateowned oil company,
which suffered a loss of
TT$346 million in the fiscal year 2014, and is bur-
dened by a total debt of
TT$14.38 billion, is forecasting a possible loss of
50 per cent in revenue due
to the decline in global oil
and gas prices.
The company will cut
back its drilling and development plans in 2015
and beyond.
Opposition Leader Dr
Keith Rowley, petroleum
economists and several
business and civil society organisations have
dismissed Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar as
failing to understand the
complexity of the issues.
But they themselves
do not understand that for
her party and her government the main issue is the
impending general elections.
She was clear to those
who listened carefully that the cutbacks will
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grammes.
She also intimated that key infrastructural projects would continue.
Trinidad and Tobago is in a
situation which the famous Trinidadian political economist Lloyd
Best aptly described as “a state of
pre-collapse”.
In these circumstances an early general election can be expected. Indeed, each day in power will
make it more difficult for the Government to win re-election as social
and economic effects of budget cutbacks begin to be felt by a growing
share of the population.
Whichever party or coalition
of political parties forms the next
government will have to grapple
with the fact that, in T&T’s undiversified economy, oil and gas account for about 50% of GDP, 85%
of exports, 10% of employment,
and a substantial share directly and
indirectly of tax revenue.
Manufacturing in Trinidad and
tourism in Tobago cannot sustain
economic growth, but the consolation is that the economy depends
more on natural gas than on oil.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
The
economic
slowdown-cum-crisis will force the
Trinidadians to face what their native son Terrance Farrell, in his Ted
talk, calls “the culture of economic
underachievement”. He points out
that, in 1960, Singapore had a per
capita GDP of half of that of Trinidad.
Today, the per capita GDP of
Singapore, a small country without natural resources, is three times
higher than T&T.
Trinidad and Tobago’s GDP per
capita is the same as that of Barbados, a small island one-tenth its
size and with no natural resources.
This fact requires Trinidadians
to look deeper than the economic
slowdown which oil and gas prices
have set in motion, but to question
whether they have made the most of
their natural resource endowment.
We here in Jamaica have to answer a similar question with regard
to the use we have made of our
bauxite resources. (Reprinted from
the Jamaica Observer)
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Monday 26th January 2015
Three minutes away from doomsday
NEW YORK, United
States, IPS – Unchecked
climate change and the
nuclear arms race have
propelled the minute hand
of the Doomsday Clock
forward two minutes
closer to midnight, from
its 2012 placement of five
minutes to midnight.
The decision was announced in Washington
DC by members of the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS), the
body behind the calculations and creation of the
1947 Clock of Doom.
The last time the clock
was at three minutes to
midnight was in 1984,
when U.S.-Soviet relations were described by
BAS as having “reached
their iciest point in decades”.
Today’s
polemic
takes into account the immutable laws of science
in relation to the “climate
catastrophe” as well as
the activities of modernisation of massive nuclear arsenals, which come
with inadvertent risks.
“The question gets
much more complicated
than someone with their
finger on the button,” said
Kennette Benedict, executive director of BAS.
Another major prob-
Images from the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945.
lem is the world’s addiction to fossil fuels, said
BAS.
Climate change and
nuclear tensions were
placed on equal footing in
this year’s warning.
“And while fossil-fuel burning technologies
may seem like a less kind
of abrupt way to ruin the
world, they’re doing it in
slow motion,” said Benedict.
Citizen’s potential
“Negotiators on the
international treaty of
climate change or any
international treaty are
working within the fairly
narrow latitude afforded
them by their governments. And the governments themselves are
working within the latitudes afforded them by
their constituencies,” said
BAS member of the Science and Security Board
Sivan Kartha, senior scientist with the Stockholm
Environment Institute.
Real cooperation on
the international front, he
said, “will rely on there
being a demand for that,
a mandate for that, from
constituencies
within
countries,” also noting
“today’s extremely daunting political opposition to
climate action”.
President of the Glob-
al Security Institute Jonathan Granoff described a
series of global existential challenges that could
accelerate the arrival of
doomsday, including the
stability of the climate,
the acidity of the oceans,
and biodiversity, as well
as widespread goals of
strategic stability and the
pursuit of dominance.
“Remember we are
extinguishing species at
up to one thousand times
faster than what would be
the normal evolutionary
base rate,” he told IPS.
“The backdrop of these
challenges arising from
science, technology, and
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social organisation is the immature relationship between states in
their pursuit of security through
the application of the threat or use
of force. The most dangerous tool
of the pursuit of security through
force are the world’s nuclear arsenals.
“…On the other hand, a growing consensus within informed
members of global governance and
civil society is rapidly coming to
understand that no nation can be
secure in an insecure world.
“And the business community has rapidly integrated in such a
fashion that they have demonstrated the capacity of cooperation, if
driven by recognised self-interests,” he said.
“I am reminded that in the 17th
Century, the world moved from
the predominance of the city-state
into the modern world of the nation
state. Such a phenomena required
national identity.
“National identity occurred
largely because of national grammar and language, which rested on
the technological innovations of
the printing press.
“Today, the technology that
will allow us to have global cultural
grammar and identity is being provided by the Internet. And thus, the
tools, to move from the dis-functionality of posing national interest
against the global common good
has the potential to be overcome.”
In light of his analysis, the
clock’s minute hand can be influenced for the better or for the worse,
and 2015 will present opportunities
for progress to be made.
The simple truth
Alyn Ware is a member of the
World Future Council and the coordinator of Global Wave 2015,
an initiative on “Global Action to
Wave Goodbye to Nukes”.
Ware spoke to IPS ahead of the
2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
“The hundreds of billions of
dollars that’s wasted on nuclear
weapons is needed in order to shift
our economy from a carbon-based
economy to an economy based on
renewable energy,” he told IPS,
also explaining that “the competition and the confrontation and
conflicts that are perpetuated by
nuclear weapons prevent the type
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of cooperation that’s required for
addressing climate change.
“The simple truth on nuclear
weapons is that they are inconsistent with civilisation. Threatening
to annihilate cities, innocent people, future generations, is not consistent with humanity,” Ware told
IPS.
“And then there’s also a simple
truth with climate change,” he added. “The simple truth is we have to
move from a carbon-based economy to one that’s focused more on
renewable energies.”
He also acknowledged the nuances surrounding the implementation of these simple truths.
“At the moment, we don’t have
sufficient political commitment to
either of them,” he said, addressing vested interests preventing that
kind of action, including corporations making nuclear weapons or
selling oil, coal or gas.
“What we’re looking at is empowering people,” he said.
For that reason, he thinks the
Doomsday Clock is very good.
“Because it’s simple, it’s really understandable, and it gives the idea
that, hey, we can all be involved in
this.”
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Two people dead following British
Virgin Islands boating accident
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – A boating mishap off
the coast of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands on Saturday, led to
the death of a man and a woman.
The police, who have not released the names of the individuals,
said the man is a Jamaican engineer
and the woman is Caucasian.
The police report that a group
was traveling in an inflatable boat
to Oil Nut Bay from an event in The
Valley area of Virgin Gorda when the
vessel crashed into a rock just before
daybreak. The body of the Jamaican
was recovered on Saturday morning
and the body of the woman was recovered later in the day.
“I can confirm a boat accident in A male was previously pronounced
Four others on board the vessel
were taken to hospital where they the sea off Virgin Gorda. The body of dead,” said Police Information Offia female was recovered at the scene. cer Diane Drayton.
were treated.
No help for WICB with India woes
Reports
emerging
from the eastern Caribbean suggest that the West
Indies Cricket Board is unlikely to receive any financial support from CARICOM when it comes to
the US$42 million being
demanded by the Board
of Control for Cricket in
India (BCCI) as compensation for the aborted tour
of India in October 2014.
The WICB received
a letter on Tuesday from
BCCI honorary secretary
Sanjay Patel in which the
Indian board delivered its
latest ultimatum.
The WICB, the letter
said, had until next Tuesday to respond to the demand for payment.
If the WICB failed to
respond then the BCCI
would initiate legal proceedings in Indian Court
to recover the sum being
demanded.
On October 31, 2014,
the BCCI had given the
WICB 15 days to come
up with a proposal on how
they intended to repay
the US$42 million. CARICOM intervention had
seen those 15 days extended to 40 days.
However, according
to Patel in the letter delivered on Tuesday, “The
BCCI cannot any longer
hold off from pursuing its
claims against WICB in
the appropriate forum being the Courts in India.”
Prime Minister of
Trinidad and Tobago Ka-
mla Persad-Bissessar said
the WICB situation was
not on the agenda when
Caricom heads meet this
weekend in Washington.
And, Leonard Robertson, advisor Communications Office of
the Secretary General at
CARICOM, revealed that
there was correspondence
between the WICB and
Caricom but says talk of
financial assistance did
not arise. (DigicelSportsMax)
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Greek radical left wing wins election
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A radical left-wing party vowing to end
Greece’s painful austerity program
won a historic victory in Sunday’s
parliamentary elections, setting the
stage for a showdown with the country’s international creditors that could
shake the eurozone.
Alexis Tsipras, leader of the communist-rooted Syriza party, immediately promised to end the “five years
of humiliation and pain” that Greece
has endured since an international
bailout saved it from bankruptcy in
2010.
With 80 percent of polling stations counted, Syriza had 36 percent
versus 28 percent for Prime Minister
Antonis Samaras’ conservatives.
It remained to be seen whether
Syriza had enough seats to govern
outright or would have to seek support from other parties. That might
not become clear until Monday morning or even later, when all the votes
are counted.
If Tsipras, 40, can put together
a government, he will be Greece’s
youngest prime minister in 150 years.
The prospect of an anti-bailout government coming to power in
Greece has sent jitters through the
financial world, reviving fears of a
Greek bankruptcy that could reverberate across the eurozone.
“The sovereign Greek people today have given a clear, strong, indisputable mandate. Greece has turned a
page. Greece is leaving behind the destructive austerity, fear and authoritarianism. It is leaving behind five years
of humiliation and pain,” Tsipras told
a crowd of rapturous flag-waving
supporters.
He won on promises to demand
debt forgiveness and renegotiate the
terms of Greece’s 240 billion-euro
($270 billion) bailout, which has kept
the debt-ridden country afloat since
mid-2010.
To qualify for the cash, Greece
has had to impose deep and bitterly resented cuts in public spending,
wages and pensions, along with public sector layoffs and repeated tax increases.
Its progress in reforms is reviewed
by inspectors from the International
Monetary Fund, European Commission and European Central Bank, collectively known as the troika, before
each installment of bailout funds can
be released.
Tsipras pronounced the troika and
its regular debt inspections “a thing of
the past.”
“The verdict of the Greek people
ends, beyond any doubt, the vicious
circle of austerity in our country,” he
said.
Greece’s creditors insist the country must abide by previous commitments to continue receiving support.
The election results will be the
main topic at Monday’s meeting of eurozone finance ministers. Belgium’s
minister, Johan Van Overtveldt, said
there is room for some flexibility, but
not much.
“We can talk modalities, we can
talk debt restructuring, but the cornerstone that Greece must respect the
rules of monetary union - that must
stay as it is,” Van Overtveldt told VRT
network.
Samaras conceded defeat, saying he had received a country “on the
brink of disaster” when he took over
in 2012 and was close to ushering it
out of the crisis.
Leader of Syriza left-wing party Alexis
Tsipras waves to his supporters outside
Athens University Headquarters.
“I was asked to hold live coals in
my hands and I did,” he said. “Most
gave us no prospect of lasting out
and we did. We got the country out
of deficits and recession ... and set
the foundations for growth and a final
exit from the crisis.”
Syriza’s anti-bailout rhetoric appealed to many in a countryw that, in
the past five years, has seen a quarter
of its economy wiped out, unemployment above 25 percent, and average
income losses of at least 30 percent.
But Syriza’s victory has renewed doubts over Greece’s ability to
emerge from the crisis, and generated
fears that the country’s finances could
once again send shockwaves through
global markets and undermine the
euro, the currency shared by 19 European countries.
The centrist Potami party was battling for third place with the Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn, whose leader
and several lawmakers campaigned
from prison, where they are awaiting
trial on charges of participating in a
criminal organization.
If Syriza falls shy of the 151 seats
necessary to form a government on its
own in the 300-seat parliament, it will
have to seek support from other parties - either in a minority government
or as part of a coalition.
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Japan stunned by video claiming death
of one of two Islamic State hostages
TOKYO (AP) -- From the prime
minister to ordinary people, Japanese
were shocked Sunday at a video purportedly showing one of two Japanese hostages of the extremist Islamic
State group had been killed.
With attention focused on efforts
to save the other hostage, some also
criticized Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe’s drive for a more assertive Japan
as responsible for the hostage crisis.
A somber Abe appeared on public broadcaster NHK early Sunday
demanding the militants release
47-year-old journalist Kenji Goto unharmed. He said the video was likely
authentic, although he added that the
government was still reviewing it. He
offered condolences to the family and
friends of Haruna Yukawa, a 42-yearold adventurer taken hostage in Syria
last year.
Abe declined to comment on the
message in the video, which demanded a prisoner exchange for Goto. He
said only that the government was
still working on the situation and reiterated that Japan condemns terrorism.
“I am left speechless,” he said.
“We strongly and totally criticize
such acts.”
Yukawa’s father, Shoichi, told reporters he hoped “deep in his heart”
that the news of his son’s killing was
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
speaks to the media after he signed a
book of condolence for the late King
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at Saudi Arabian Embassy in Tokyo yesterday.
not true.
“If I am ever reunited with him,
I just want to give him a big hug,” he
said.
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Friday’s Sudoku Solution
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SUDOKU
C R O S S WO R D
Across
1. Wild party
5. Big brother?
10. Ticklish doll
14. ‘’Little Caesar’’ role for
Edward G. Robinson
15. 1944 Otto Preminger film
16. Diamond, Young or Simon
17. Huh?
20. Valued highly
21. Fireplace utensils
22. Start for Jose or Diego
23. Business association
25. Huh?
33. Oscar winner Berry
34. Post of etiquette fame
35. Abbr. on a ticket
36. One way to stand by
37. Obligations
38. Fixed charge
39. Muscle car initials
40. Frenzied
41. What ibn means
42. Huh?
45. Follow a command
46. ‘’___ Poetica’’ (Horace)
47. ‘’Don’t ___ me, I voted
for ...’’
50. Absolutely certain
55. Huh?
58. Source of some lows
59. Supplement
60. Monopoly payment
61. Obedience-school word
62. Elementary atomic particle
63. Captain Hook’s sidekick
Down
1. Yuppie cheese
2. Helps out
3. Sean Connery, by birth
4. ‘’To tell the truth ...’’
5. Homecoming returnees
6. Ruinous agent
7. Melville’s foretopman
8. Pitchblende, e.g.
9. Smoker’s amassment
10. Inter
11. Mean partner
12. Chinese dynasty (13681644)
13. Contemporary of Ford
18. Beleaguer
19. Go away from the fold
23. Hog side
24. Malaises
25. Tories’ opponents
26. ‘’It ___ Be You’’
27. Concede
28. Diminutive
29. External boundary
30. Yemeni neighbor
31. ‘’The Jungle’’ author Sinclair
32. Cause of shrinkage
37. Watch feature, perhaps
38. Farm alarms
40. Lady with a dream in a
Louis Armstrong tune
41. Bit of parsley
43. Grits stuff
44. Singer Sheena
47. Toddlers’ garb
48. Exam for a would-be DA
49. Gillette product
50. Okra units
51. Not taken in by
52. It’s on the agenda
53. Liana
54. Luncheon conclusion?
56. On the ___ (hiding out)
57. J.F.K.’s predecessor
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The Antigua & Barbuda Red Cross in collaboration with the
American Red Cross has a First Aid App to launch.
The Antigua & Barbuda Red Cross wants the residents of
Antigua to know the importance of the App and the long
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The Ministry of Health, Central Board will be conducting
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their Assistants who will be vending around Antigua and
Barbuda.
Food Handlers are asked to bring along:1.
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All Pest Control Operators are invited to a very important
meeting to be held at the Ministry of Agriculture Headquarters
Conference Room on Monday 26th January 2015 at 10 a.m.
Matters to be discussed will focus on the Pesticides and Toxic
Chemicals (Registration, Licensing and Permit) Regulations,
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DEAR LADY X HOROSCOPE
My 7-year-old granddaughter, “Kelly,” wanted
a dollhouse for Christmas.
I had a friend build a basic
frame, shingled roof, chimney and shutters, then I decorated it.
I did everything by
hand. I wallpapered each
room, made little rugs and
crocheted lace curtains.
There were even little window shades. Kelly’s room
was a perfect princess bedroom. It took weeks, but I
loved working on it.
The family came for
five days over the holidays.
Kelly loved her dollhouse
and played with it every day.
When it came time to leave,
my daughter told Kelly she
couldn’t take it with her. She
had to leave it at Grandma’s
“so she would have something to play with when she
came to visit.” Kelly was
heartbroken. So was I.
Then my daughter told
me (in private) the dollhouse was “too amateurish,”
which was why she didn’t
want it in her home. I think
about it all the time and
don’t know how to get past
it. Any advice? -- HURT
GRANDMA
DEAR HURT: You appear to be a loving grandparent. Sometimes people
say things without weighing
the effect it will have on the
person they’re talking to.
What your daughter said
may have been honest, but it
was extremely insensitive in
light of the time, effort and
love that went into that gift.
Your daughter appears
to be more fixated on appearances rather than what’s
really important in life.
What is sad to me is that she
may pass along her skewed
sense of values to your
granddaughter.
Friday’s Crossword Solution
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
Sometimes you do it out of a
sense of joy, other times you
do it out of a sense of duty.
Mostly it’s a mix. The more
joy you bring, the sweeter this
will be. Of course, sometimes
you don’t want it so sweet.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
Use your voice for the side
that you are on. In order for
evil to prevail, good people
need to do absolutely nada.
When you see it’s not right,
say something.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
The Chinese proverb suggests
that the palest ink is better
than the best memory. In your
case, the act of writing things
down will cement them in
your mind even if you happen
to lose the paper on which it’s
written.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
There’s something you’re
getting paid (in some form)
to do now that you would do
anyway even if payment were
not forthcoming. That’s where
you need to put more of your
time and energy.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). If
you do it the same way most
other people would, you’ll
be replaceable in the position. They need the thing that
makes you irreplaceable in
the position. Lean into your
originality.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
Relating to people outside
of your usual circle will help
you hear yourself more objectively. This kind of self-consciousness can be positive. It
will help you see an attitude
or social habit you’d like to
improve upon.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
The reason you’ll walk away
with the prize today is that
you’re willing to work harder
than the others. Most of that
work will happen in the way
of strategy and preparation.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
If you surround yourself with
narcissists, prepare to be ignored. It’s not as negative as it
sounds. Such a circumstance
can afford you the opportunity you need to focus inwardly.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). There won’t be a
perfect moment, but if you
act on the imperfect one you
will greatly improve it. Win or
lose, you’ll gain the benefit of
experience and help a Leo in
some indirect way in the process.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). It’s usually not possible
to make a big difference in
the world all at once, but the
small differences you make
in your immediate surroundings will ripple out from those
closest to you and far beyond.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). As long as you are making requests, what about more
love, respect, tenderness and
attention? Hey, it can happen!
You’ll make subtle changes
in your behavior to attract a
sweeter kind of treatment.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).
Some people have more of a
talent for self-promotion than
for the talent they are supposedly promoting. Look beyond
the marketing of things and
into what’s being marketed.
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Monday 26th January 2015
Glanville’s beat All Saints and Swetes beat
Young Lions in First and Second Divisions
By Vanroy Burnes
All Three Divisions
of the ABFA Football
program is winning down
and teams in all the divisions are battling for
championship honors and
some battling to avoid
automatic relegations and
playoffs
In the latest round of
matches in the first division on Tuesday it was decided that 13 times ABFA
Premier Divisions for-
mer Champions Empire
has already assured of
returning to the Premier
division next season with
their victory over Liberta,
but the other team to join
them is yet to be decided.
In the lone first division match played on
Friday, Glanville’s beat
Seven Seas/ Natural Construction All Saints United two goals to one.
Randy George and
Tarick Prince scored a
goal each for Glanville’s
in the 28th and 55th minute respectively minute,
while the goal All Saints
United came from Angis
Anthony in the 57th minute.
In second division
action, Freemans Ville
beat Jennings United two
goals to nil Roy Gregory
and Coy Hunte scored a
goal each.
Pares beat Shot Guns
by a goal to nil Christo-
pher Carr scored the lone
goal in the 64th minute.
Swetes they beat Young
Lions 2 four goals to two.
Vidal Francis scored
twice in the 16th and 56th
minute and Kemoy Alexander also scored twice in
the 30th and 75th minute.
Shelorn Knight scored for
Young Lions.
In the other match
played West Ham and
Young Warriors played to
a goalless draw.
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Monday 26th January 2015
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Grenades beat Five Islands 3-0
By Vanroy Burnes
Grenades beat bottom of the table
Five Islands 3 goals to nil in Saturday
feature match in the ABFA Premier
Division action in a bid to end up in
the top three teams since their title
ambitions has been dash.
It was Rakeem Henry in the 21st
minute, Oalex Anderson in the 31st
minute and Tazim Williamson in the
86th minute that scored the goals for
Grenades.
In the other match played, Bassa
cont’d from pg 20
and earned West Indies
two wickets, as the tourists
finished well.
West Indies then had
their run chase set back
early when Dwayne Smith
was bowled without scoring off the third ball of
the innings from seamer
Morne Morkel
Chris Gayle followed
for ten at the start of the
seventh over with the Windies limping along, driving
the first ball of off-spinner
Duminy’s spell to Farhaan
26 January 2015
and Sani-Pro Fort Road played to a
goalless draw.
Meanwhile in Sunday’s actions,
Otto’s Rangers beat Lime Old Road
3 goals to nil.
Langdon Rascoe scored in the 2nd
minute, Williams Lewis Jr. scored in
the 45 plus 1 minute and Junior Benjamin scored in the 76th minute for
Rangers.
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Hoppers beat the Golden Stars of Url-
Behardien at cover.
Leon Johnson (18),
Ramdin (3) and Jonathan
Carter (5) then perished
in quick succession, leaving the Windies perilously
placed at 73 for five in the
21st over.
Samuels and Sammy came together to post
93 for the sixth wicket, a
stand which put the Caribbean side on course for
recovery.
While Samuels hit five
fours and two sixes off 93
balls, Sammy opened his
ings 3 goals to 1 coming from behind.
Quinton Griffith scored the lone goal
for Urlings in the 29th minute, while
Omarie Daniel scored twice for Hoppers in the 70th and 90 plus 2 minutes
and Tomarley Thomas in the87th
minute.
In the third match of the day, Defending Champions Hadeed Group
of Companies Sap beat leaders Asot
Arcade Parham by a goal to nil. Peter
Byers scored the lone goal in the 61st
minute.
shoulders to crunch five
fours and two sixes off 52
balls, before holing out to
de Villiers running back at
cover in the 37th over.
Nineteen balls later,
Samuels had his leg stump
disturbed by seamer Berhardien at 189 for seven in
the 40th over but Russell
assumed responsibility for
the innings, picking off sixes at will down the stretch
as wickets fell around him.
The match was still in
the balance when Carlos
Brathwaite was run out for
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11 off the first ball of the
48th, with the Windies 239
for nine and still 24 runs
away from victory.
Russell eased the pressure with two consecutive
sixes in the same over off
left-arm spinner Aaron
Phangiso and with West
Indies needing seven to
win at the start of the penultimate over, the Jamaican
smashed pacer Kyle Abbott to the point boundary
and then cleared the ropes
at long on two balls later,
to seal an emphatic win.
2 February 2015
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Monday 26th January 2015
Russell’s fireworks wins it for Windies
PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, CMC – Andre Russell struck
a sensational unbeaten half-century
as West Indies ended their nine-year
wait for a One-Day International victory over South Africa by clinching
a nervy one wicket win, with nine
balls to spare in the fourth game of
the five-match series here Sunday.
The right-hander belted an exciting 64 from 40 deliveries and was one
of three batsmen with half-centuries,
with vice-captain Marlon Samuels
getting a top score of 68 and Darren
Sammy, 51, knocks which helped
West Indies overhaul their target of
263 at St George’s Park.
West Indies had not beaten South
Africa in an ODI since November,
2006 during the Champions Trophy
in India, and had gone 16 matches –
15 of these defeats – without a single
win.
The triumph also broke the Caribbean side’s miserable losing
slump which had seen them fall behind 3-0 in the series, following defeats in Durban, Johannesburg and
East London, and gave Jason Holder
his first win as captain.
Russell heroics which saw him
strike five fours and five sixes, managed to outshine David Miller’s su-
perb unbeaten 130 – his maiden ODI
hundred – which lifted the Proteas to
262 for eight after they had been sent
in.
South Africa were 76 for four in
the 15th over at one stage but rallied
through Miller’s innings which comprised 11 fours and three sixes and
came from 130 deliveries.
He put on 90 for the fifth wicket with JP Duminy who carved out
43 from 68 balls and added a further
63 for the seventh wicket with tailender Wayne Parnell who scored 12.
Captain and seamer Jason Holder bowled well to finish with four for
51 while left-arm seamer Sheldon
Cottrell picked up two for 35, after
accounting for both openers cheaply.
Cottrell had Rilee Roussouw (4)
brilliantly caught low down by Sammy at first slip in the third over at 18
for one and then had Morne van Wyk
(18) well taken in front of first slip
by wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin at
32 for three in the seventh over.
In between, Holder prised out the
dangerous Faf du Plessis for four to
a brilliant one-handed catch by Ramdin.
Miller and captain AB de Villiers
(19) steadied the innings with a stand
of 44, before de Villiers got an inside
Andre Russell lets out a roar after leading West Indies to a thriling one-wicket
victory in Port Elizabeth.
edge through to Ramdin off Russell
in the seamer’s third over.
The left-handed Miller then
controlled the innings, reaching his
half-century off 75 balls with a cover-driven boundary off Cottrell in the
32nd over, before edging the next
ball to the third man boundary.
Miller required a further 47 balls
to reach three figures with a couple off Holder to long on and then
whacked a four and a six – the first
maximum of the innings in the 48th
over – as South Africa picked up the
scoring.
The Proteas gathered 18 runs off
the penultimate over bowled by Russell but Holder sent down a brilliant
last over which cost just three runs
cont’d on pg 19
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